Improvement in car-seals



N'PETERS, .PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHHL WASHINGTON, I)v C.

JOHN DEWE, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

Letters Patent No. 109,394, dated November 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-SEALS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters *Patent and making part of thesame.

l, JOHN Dawn, ofthe city of Toronto, in the county of York and Provinceof Ontario, and Dominion of Uanada, have invented certain Improvementsin the Rivet-fastening for Gar-Doors, ot' which the iirwllowing is aspeeiticaftion.

.Nature and Object 0f Ihc Invention.

My invention relates to improvement in seal-locks for railway freight orother en rs; also for boxes, trunks, Ste.; and

The invention consists in the method of stamping or imprinting the headand the shank of the rivet, whereby they arc caused to furnish the nameof the place or station from and to which the car or box isdispatched,the shank being flattened and imprinted by devices forindicating the destination or starting place ot' the car unnecessary, aswell as avoid 'recourse to inseribing the sides of the car itself withchalk, paint, or other-means for that purpose.

rlhe rivet, with its head suitably stamped, is inserted in the hole D ofthe pin or key O. This done, I take a pair of pliers, shaped asrepresented in fig. l of the drawing, on the meeting faces of whose jawsis cut or engraved the name of the station from which the car has beendispatched or to which it is dest-ined, and, siezing the shank of therivet with said pliers, squeeze the shank so as to flatten it, and alsoimpress it with the letters engraved ou the faces of the jaws. lhussecured, the rivet cannot be withdrawn from the pin, andthe attempt todo so would result in such injury as to destroy the form of theflattened shank or the impression thereon.

It will be understood that when the head of the rivet bears the nameofthe place or station from which the car or box is dispatched, theshank should bear the name oi' that for which it is destined, and 'viceversa.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The rivet of'softmetal, provided with the imprinted head E and the flattened shank to beimprinted, substantially in the manner described.

At the city of Toronto, September 1, 1870.

J. DEWE.

lVitnesses DONALD U. RrDoU'r, C. T. OAYLnv.

